The European Union are showing an interest in the recent takeover of McAfee by Intel. Since Intel were fined $1.45 billion for anti trust behaviour they have been on the radar of the EU. The Wall Street Journal published a news story stating that a questionnaire is being circulated by …

The BPI is painting a rather damning picture of the music download scene in 2010, claiming that 1.2 billion songs were illegally downloaded in 2010, costing the music industry £984 million. On the BPI site they say: “In 2010, illegal music downloading continues to rise in the UK.  The number …

Google have just released the security sandbox for Adobe's Flash to the beta channel of their Chrome browser. Chrome users already running the beta build will be automatically updated to the version which includes the sandboxed Flash code. A ‘Sandbox' isolates processes on the computer, stalling or halting malware from …

This is a hot topic of debate among enthusiast users – which driver set is better? nVidia or AMD's ? It would be fair to say that years ago the scales would have been tipped favourably in nVidia's direction, but today is the situation reversed? Both sets of drivers have …

Apple are at the center of several smash and grab robberies lately. The latest store to get hit was in the Greenwich Conn location. Robbers broke the windows at 3am Tuesday morning and made away with thousands of pounds of merchanise from the store. The store in Greenwich Conn is …

Gawker Media had a rough weekend, as websites they owned stopped publishing new content over the weekend after hackers gained access to their servers. Sites such as Gizmondo and Jezebel published information telling their readers to change passwords – issuing a statement saying “our user databases appear to have been …

Sometimes we get our predictions wrong, but more often than not we get them right. Kitguru said months ago that Apple were coming out with a dual camera iPad and Reuters have just announced that their insiders have confirmed the new design. As everyone is already aware, the original iPad …

It seems that many companies try the ‘viral' video approach now when trying to highlight a computer problem. The latest to join the fray are Diskeeper who have released a rather amusing little video showing how a business executive loses his cool when he finds that his computer is taking …

Amazon have denyed removing am e-book detailing Wikileaks conspiracies saying that the author himself removed it from sale. An Amazon spokesperson said “We did not remove the title, and are verifying that it was removed from sale by the author.” Amazon were also fortunate to escape a denial of service …

As we reported a few weeks ago, Apple were due to upgrade the iTunes store preview system from 30 seconds to 90 seconds. As promised this has just rolled out. The length of these song samples has been found to be key to a consumer's decision to purchase music online. …

Google have launched Chrome OS in their continued expansion into other areas of software. Chrome OS is released as a trial program that users can register for online and will eventually be offered preinstalled on a wide range of computers made by global names such as Samsung and Acer. The …

Amazon are set to enhance the Kindle service to match Google's eBookStore, feature for feature. This means they will “enable users to read full books in the browser and [enable] any Website to become a bookstore offering Kindle books.” Google's eBookstore already offers these features and it appears to be …

Apple have their gloves well and truly off. They have recently amended their lawsuit against Motorola to include 12 more patents. This now means that Apple have 24 patent infringements pending against Motorola, and Motorola still have 18 patents filed against Apple. The legal wranglings have been going on now …

Earlier this year, KitGuru broke the story that Manju Hegde, nVidia's VP for PhysX and Cuda moved across to AMD. We've just heard that the person managing nVidia's professional product sales across a massive region (including the UK) has also defected to Team AMD. Interesting development. KitGuru investigates. Originally with …

With the whole web running hot on whether or not the GTX570 will be a hit, it seems that nVidia has been squeezing out as many chips as it possibly can for the launch. KitGuru's spies have reported ship-out details from the Far East and we're now prepared to reveal …

Wacky Wafaa Bilal, a New York University photography professor has been in the news in local New York papers for a while now. Understandably so, as he has had a camera implanted in the back of his head. Speaking with the Wall Street Journal he said that the camera is …

We've never met anyone who's bought anything from More Computers, but their customers certainly seem happy with them. Their home page looks like a monument to how much their customers love them. Today, they will probably love them more. KitGuru broke the world exclusive story yesterday that the GTX570 has …

While the main players look to be settling at just under the £300 mark, it seems that some folks believe that demand for the GTX570 might push the price up. One store in South London seems to be optimistic. KitGuru investigates. Since 1999, CD-Writer have been supplying exactly what you …

Earlier today, KitGuru broke the story that nVidia's latest GTX570 card was now showing as available to order in the UK. Looks like the dams burst and more are following. Pricing looks to be very competitive. The second vendor we've spotted with the live link is LamdaTek. This time is …

With KitGuru and the other major sites all reporting the full specification etc for the GTX570 last week, everyone has been wondering how long we would have to wait until the product launches. Apparently, no time. It's happened. KitGuru has more spiders crawling the web for hints and gossip than …

Googles Chrome browser seems to be taking hold of a growing portion of the market with latest figures showing a rise to 9.27 percent of the total user base. This climb from 8.5 percent last month is remarkable. Microsoft Internet Explorer's popularity is waning, dropping from 59.18 percent to 58.41 …

Google said yesterday that it plans to change the way it ranks search results so that dodgy dealers will find it harder to appear high in the listing via their search algorithms. This change started after an article in the New York Times, detailing a Brooklyn based online seller of …

OK, the chances of the next XBox being called 720 are 50:50 at best but, for now, at least you all know what we're talking about. While the name and final design for the box and packaging might still be up in the air, the internals appear to have been …

Billionaire Richard Branson held a conference in the Crosby Street Hotel to showcase his new monthly iPad based publication entitled “Project”. He calls this ‘the first truly digital magazine for creative people about creative people'. This magazine has been developed in partnership with the UK Digital shop Seven Squared. The …

A recent GiK survey shows that 56 percent of smartphone owners in key global markets are keeping their options open regarding which phone they would buy next. Only Apple has shown a significant percentage of loyalty, which is not entirely that surprising. What is rather concerning however is that Microsoft's …

As Palit's sales sheets for the GTX570 begin to get distributed globally ahead of nVidia's launch on 7th December, AMD has now had a good chance to evaluate the specifications and it's decided to react. KitGuru hits the bars and snoops like a pro. Once in each generation, one of …

Most UK people say ‘eh?' when you talk about Black Friday, because, yes it isn't a tradition in dreary old Blighty. All you lucky Canadian and American users end up with some sexy hardware for the price of a pancake breakfast. Analyst Gene Munster and his research buddies spent 7 …

Reports are circulating from Media Watch that Apple have just rejected a magazine application from Danish company MediaProvider because it featured exclusive content about the Android Operating System. The Google platform is one of Apple's most legitimate threats in recent years, however if they have indeed banned it from the …

The U.S. federal forces are coming down hard on websites that are selling counterfeit and pirated products – shutting down 70 websites last week. These websites offered many goods, such as golf clothing and equipment, scarves and even rap music. The domain names have been seized by the U.S. Immigration …

Over the years, there have been many famous ‘app detection' revelations. Probably the most famous was revealed by Beyond3D when genius uber-geeks discovered that changing the name of the 3DMark 2003 executable file created a huge difference for the performance of nVidia cards. Looking at recent documents posted into the …